Adobe kills mobile Flash. Google kills GMail for Blackberry

The confusing situation with mobile platforms is getting more and more clear day by day. The weaker devices, platforms, intermediate platforms are heading to the deadpool. Today, Adobe announced that it stops the development of Flash for mobile devices. As you know, the mobile Flash was actually killed by Steve Jobs, when he banned it on iOS. After that, Microsoft also didn't support Flash on Windows Phone. And although it later appeared on some Android-devices and Blackberry Playbook, it wasn't clever for Adobe to continue developing this not-so-crossplatform technology. Instead of Flash the company will focus on HTML5-app building tools. As we have suggested, HTML5 can become the "new flash" for Adobe.

It is interesting that just today it appeared that Microsoft is also going to kill the mobile Silverlight. According to insider information, the new Silverlight 5, which is expected this November will be the last.

Now about the Blackberry problems. This mobile platform in recent months, is rapidly losing its market share and sets new sales anti-records. The latest reasons for this: unsuccessful Playbook tablet and the global service outage in October. Today, Google is jumping from the sinking ship. The company has announced the termination of GMail for Blackberry support. Instead, Google promised to focus on (yes!) HTML5 GMail app.

And yesterday, HP, which recently confirmed the termination of the WebOS project, announced that it want to to sell this mobile platform. According to some rumors, it might be acquired by Oracle. Why? Probably because of the mobile patents in order to troll someone (i.e. Android).

The only news that complicate the clarifying picture - is that Microsoft and Nokia will soon launch the Office for Symbian Belle. Despite the fact that the recent launch of Nokia Windows Phones was considered quite successful.

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